NLP Weight Loss

Weight loss is not magic. It involves consuming fewer calories than you burn. Similarly, NLP for weight loss is not magic. You can't just convince yourself you're losing weight with NLP and then eat a tub of ice cream. However, you can use NLP to make that ice cream seem unappealing.

Ice cream is delicious, right? How can it possibly become unappealing? The truth is, the pros of ice cream often outweigh the cons. You have to focus on the cons, not the pros. Think about that fatty aftertaste it leaves in your mouth. Visualize it as a visible, irremovable film that sticks like glue. Picture the cold, hard sugars rotting away your teeth until they become painful and brown. Imagine the fat globules seeping through your blood vessels, forming pale yellow piles of fat under your skin. Think about the sound of saturated fats congealing into a putty and clogging your arteries. How does that processed fat smell once it's stripped of its flavors and sugars?

How does that ice cream sound now? Read that paragraph out loud if you need to. The more vividly you imagine these things, the better they will work. For added effect, read this while a plate of ice cream is in front of you. Take a spoonful, put it in your mouth, and start reading. Focus on the bad aspects of the food, and they will soon outweigh the good aspects. The result is that you won't be buying more ice cream next time you're at the supermarket.

Making Healthy Eating More Appealing with NLP

The same goes for any food you like but shouldn't eat, and the reverse applies to food you don't like but should eat. Let's take celery, for example. Celery is great because it actually requires more calories to break down and process than it contains.

Think about that. Every fresh, crisp piece of celery you bite off and chew helps your body burn calories. Not directly, of course, but for our NLP learning, let's pretend it does. In reality, your body breaks down fat deposits to gain energy for processing the celery. But I digress.

What is your favorite aspect of celery? If you hate the taste, use a different vegetable, like a carrot or lettuce. Picture the celery being broken down and turning old fat deposits into pure water. Concentrate on the taste. Say words like "mmm delicious!" and really mean them. Act like it's the most delicious food you've ever eaten. Tell others how great it tastes. Even if you don't quite believe yourself, put on the performance of a lifetime.

Your body will start to like celery genuinely. This is the exact method I used on olives, which I used to hate but now enjoy. The more times you put on this act, and the more emotion you put behind it, the faster this will work.

How Does This NLP Secret Work?

These NLP processes work by tricking your brain into reconfiguring its reaction to certain foods. You are literally telling your brain that it's giving the wrong signals. Your brain will react by correcting these problems in your favor. As soon as you take your bite of celery...

	Your Frontal Lobes (prefrontal cortex) give the conscious signal to your body to act like you're enjoying the celery like it's the best thing on earth.
	Your Insula tells you that this is boring, distasteful celery. It replays the same old taste sensations you're used to.
		But what's this?! Your Temporal Lobes and Parietal Lobes are creating reflex signals indicating great enjoyment. How strange!
	Since you requested information on how to act when eating enjoyable food, the Amygdala gives out faint emotions of pleasure to tell the other active brain parts what emotions to simulate. The more you get into the act, the stronger the sensation will become.
	The hippocampus matches this feeling with pleasurable eating and matches the current sensory input with that of eating celery. It confirms you are eating celery.
	Your Insula stands confused but corrected and processes this pleasurable information, building new pathways to link directly to the other corresponding parts of the brain.

Obviously, many other things are going on in your brain, but these are the points we're interested in. Also, this won't automatically and permanently change your perception of celery. You've only built one new pathway, compared to all the other times you've eaten celery and reacted naturally. Therefore, the more you repeat this act, the stronger its effect will be, and the easier and more natural the act will become.

Eventually, you'll develop a genuine taste for celery. I have always liked celery, but I used this technique on olives (as I already mentioned) and now consider olives a delicious treat.

Gathering motivation to exercise is hard. NLP can make it much easier.

Going for a Run or Sitting in Front of the TV?

The same principle applies. To prefer exercise over sedentary activities, you need to rewire your brain. This is possible and not too different from learning to pronounce a word correctly. When you think, "Should I go exercise?" what is the first thing you picture? Yourself doing the exercise and asking how you would feel. The answer is probably, "I'd feel tired, it seems like hard work." No! Your brain doesn't tell YOU how to think! YOU tell your BRAIN how to think!

Think "Should I go exercise?" and immediately picture yourself achieving a specific goal. If you don't already have a goal, set one now. Imagine you are watching a video of yourself in the future, the moment you achieve that goal. Click on "play video" and see the screen displaying future you completing that goal. Close up on your face, see your expression as you achieve that goal. Listen to your breathing and see the sense of achievement spread across your face. Now step into the video and click "replay." Act it out in your mind - how does it feel?

How tempting does that exercise sound now?

NLP to Increase Enjoyment of Exercise

Goal achievement visualization works. I use this with my martial arts students, and you can see a significant change in motivation. It also works during exercise. You can perform the celery trick to increase enjoyment during exercise.

When you're running up a steep hill and feel tired, replace the negative thoughts with positive ones. Imagine yourself as the hero in a movie. Imagine you're chasing someone. Hear the movie soundtrack in your mind. Picture yourself running to music - how does that music feel? Or use the goal achievement technique and think about the end goal you're striving for. Imagine your future self is watching you from the top of that hill, and keep running!

Isn't NLP great? For more NLP secrets, follow the links in the left column. There's so much more to learn about NLP for weight loss and motivation. Follow these steps, and you'll find yourself shedding those pounds and feeling great.